Speckled Hens

These hens are one of my favorites.  They blended and created textures and outlined and really made their hens come to life!  Just wait you'll see...

My lil artists at work.

Painting the fence.

Different shades of brown
make it look really cool.

Painting the grass.  

Adding her eye.

Outlining her in black.

Two lil feet.

Working on making it look feathery.

Lil cutie!

Almost done!

So focused, I love it.  

An orange beak.

Chayce's white hen is perfect!

Ash did amazing!

Vann's fluffy hen, I love her!

Sunny Sunflowers

I have so many fun art projects to share with you!  All of them are from my most fav art website, Deep Space Sparkle.  I'm a part of the Members Club and it's amazing!  So many wonderful projects at my fingertips for all my kiddos...worth every penny.  This Sunny Sunflower was completed over a few days...painting, cutting, gluing, all kinds of fun stuff!

First they made orange and yellow painted paper using sponges and plastic knives to make cool patterns in the paint. 

Then they made blue and purple painted paper. 

Time to cut out their petals, stems and leaves!
I love Ash's focused face...he gets so into it.

And glue them on to make a beautiful Sunny Sunflower!
Ash doesn't like to get messy during art time.  He's checking for glue on his finger lol.

Love them!!  Bridget's is on the left.  Ash's is on the right.  

All about Ash

Oh my sweet little Ash.  He's so sweet, my nickname for him is Sweets :) For a long time, when I would say, 'Are you my Sweets?'  He would say, 'No, I'm Ash!'  But now he knows he's my Sweets and he likes it.  Anyhow, here are a bunch of pics of Ash from the past month or so...enjoy!

He fell asleep like this once day during his nap.
Talk about the perfect book to nap under!

Painting his letter P.  I still need to take a picture of his letter wall.  I will...soon.  I promise!

Check out my new bike!

It even holds pine cones :)

I think he likes it.

Practicing hammering nails with Dad.
He always has to be just like the big boys. 

Swinging at the neighbors
house.

Watch out Chaycers!

He's such a goofball.  And so silly.  I love it!

Dad drew a face on his belly lol. 

While the big boys went to a birthday party, Ash and I went bowling!  He was so cute and watched his ball roll slowly down every single time.  

We had a lot of fun!  His bowling name was Sweets.
And then he crashed hard when we got home.

His curls.  I can't get enough of them!

We made a game out of the rocks he was playing with.  

Enjoying the weather a few weekends ago
with a walk to the park.  

  

His Easter goodies :)  There was a dinosaur theme.

Putting the money he found inside eggs in his piggy bank.

He loooves to cut!  And this book makes it fun.  

And this last week he painted the letter S.  He looks forward to this every week!  And asks almost every night as we're snuggling before bed, 'What letter are we learning about tomorrow?'  I love that he loves to learn :)

Phew that was a lot of pictures huh?!  This is why I need to stay caught up on my blogging.  I'm gonna try, really hard.  Because I love being able to look back at pictures and read about what was happening in our lives.  It's like my online scrapbook that I get to share with you :)  Okie doke, I hope you are having a lovely day!

Sea Turtles

I let the boys pick out our art project last Friday.  Chaycers was begging to do these Sea Turtles!  So that's what we did.  And they turned out beautiful!  

First they drew their turtles with pencil.  

Then they traced them
with a black oil pastel.

Speaking of black oil pastels,
I need to get more.

Adding some seaweed.

And little fish.

Time to paint!

Getting a little red.

Painting his little fish.

And his turtle's head

Vann had to leave on Friday to go to his book club at
the library so, he finished painting his yesterday.

Harley's fabulous sea turtle!

Chayce's smiley guy!

Vann's colorful turtle!

The boys love helping me cook or bake or do anything in the kitchen.  And Chris and I both think it's awesome!  I'll be honest, they make me nervous sometimes...like chopping up veggies or even when Vann was flipping his french toast.  I so don't want them to get hurt, I mean what mom does.  But they're eager to learn so, we're all about it!  

We made blueberry banana bread yesterday.  And it was a big hit!
They've almost eaten the whole loaf. 

Making french toast a few mornings ago.  Not a piece left, they
gobbled them all up!  With a bunch of fruit too :)

I cannot get enough of this guy's crazy head of hair.  
Part of me wants to cut it right now and part of me
never wants to cut it ever.  

A little Ash funny yesterday as he's on the potty...

Ash - Mom I like your potty.

Me - Oh you do?!

Ash - Yep.  And I like our potty too. 

Pause.

Ash - Actually I like all the potties.  

Haha!